Oh, beg pardon. Everything you do is a bit of light-hearted fun, and therefore transcends criticism.

My bad.

That's OK. I accept your humble apology in the spirit it was intended...

Sorry, what? Ohhhhhh... I seeeeee! You were being sarcastic? How's that working out for you, BTW? The whole sarcastic, passive-aggressive, needlessly confrontational thing? Cos it strikes me that some folks round here are incredibly literal-minded and insist on taking absolutely everything at face value with very little time for wit, nuance or ambiguity. Must be a "humour pending" thing.

Is it a mod's job to criticise every damn thing, BTW? Not very moderate, is it? Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?, as the saying goes. Or am I being... Juvenal?

So much as I would love to get sucked into yet another pointless, neverending and unwinnable online argument about... er... Anyway, if you'll excuse me, there's bound to be somewhere on this dedicated film website where I can actually talk about films sensibly with like minded individuals without this constant polis harassment

Where?

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I have to say that at the time of the flick's release, Walter Hill was quite upfront about Last Man Standing being a remake of A Fistful of Dollars. Not really a "Stealth Remake", if I'm understanding the term correctly.

I quite like Last Man Standing. It's very rare to see a film in which Bruce Willis plays a lead character who isn't as sympathetic as John McClane.

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Last Man Standing isn't so much a remake of Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars as a straight adaptation of the Dashiel Hammett gangster novel, Red Harvest, which Yojimbo ripped-off in the first place. Miller's Crossing slyly lifts its plot too - smart gangster caught in the middle of a bloody turf war plays the middle against both ends.

Someone beat me to the lion king is Hamlet with lions but (now bear with me as I haven't seen it for ages) but isn't the Long Kiss Goodnight basically an adaptation of the Bourne Identity but with a woman?

Someone beat me to the lion king is Hamlet with lions but (now bear with me as I haven't seen it for ages) but isn't the Long Kiss Goodnight basically an adaptation of the Bourne Identity but with a woman?

So the Bourne identity is a remake of the long kiss goodnight

Never make an assumption. Cos when you do, you make an ass out of "U" and "umption."

I have to say that at the time of the flick's release, Walter Hill was quite upfront about Last Man Standing being a remake of A Fistful of Dollars. Not really a "Stealth Remake", if I'm understanding the term correctly.

I quite like Last Man Standing. It's very rare to see a film in which Bruce Willis plays a lead character who isn't as sympathetic as John McClane.

I love Last Man Standing. Aside from the ridiculous physics when someone gets shot, its a stone cold classic.